ROBERT LOWELL'S BLOCKS

Even the first blocks
of pink, black and blue
made us mad and frightened
thinking it was unorthodox

The school shrinks
think we are April fools
because we obey
our own enlightened rules

"This one is not coordinated
still another in despair
is fated to be bi-polar
creative at the electric chair"

Such is Robert Lowell's condition
they once called mental health
a hell's hurt life of perdition
as a poet's lyrical stealth.